"Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art."

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“The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.”

“Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!”

“Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt”

“In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.”

“Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.”

“Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.”

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"That's good advice.. ..all the more so since I may well be forced to leave it at that, as so often happens when the model doesn't come back. That's always been my principal concern, to make sure of ge…"

— Édouard Manet

Art1832–1883

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"When we score seven points, I’ll say we’re slow starting. If we score 21 points, I’ll say, ‘Whoa, we scored a lot of points.’ Twenty-one points – that’s a lot of points. Thirty points? That isn’t even…"

— Herm Edwards

1954

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"Robert Kennedy's Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr"

— Robert F. Kennedy

Politics1925–1968

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"In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of Varro and Mur…"

— Vitruvius

Technology-79–-14

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